The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-02-24

| We watched her breathing fhro the night
Her breathing soft and low,
A. 10 her breast the wave Of life
Kept heA,ing to and fro.
So silently we seem'd to speak,
/ So slowly moved about,
AZ we had lent her half our powers
To exc her living ont.
Our very hopes bclied our fears,
Our fears our hopes BELIEF
We thought her dying when she slept.
And sleeping when she died.
For when the morn eme dim and sAd
1 And chill with early showers.
Her quiet ese!ids c!o-ed she had
Another morn than our-.
-Thoinas Hood.
ENGLISH tND AMERICAN METHODS.
| English journals are discussing the
question Of how often cattle should be
fed i'm the winter when stabbed. and the
agreement there seems that the feed
ing should be five times a day. The
| North British Agriculturist quotes Mr..
McCombic Of Tillefour. well known on
this side Of the water Is one OF he most
eminent breeders Of Pollei Angus cat
lie. and SAYS:
He had his cattle fed 1T aquarter TO 8
o clock in the morning. and the last
feed given at y. m. when they were
inspected and left for the night As a
rule, the length of day may be fixed at
from 6 u. M. to or 81 p. m. and the
feeding may take place five or six times,
beginning. when the ..warm water
system is adopted. with 4 feed Of the
soaked mixture, still warm. from the
preparation of the day before, followed
at intervals (Which must not vary in
length from day to day. BY roots, given
twice. or perhaps three times. and 1T
least one allowance of dry fodder, in
addition 10 the second half of the cook
ell food. Frequency in feeding. with
~ much variety a possible thrown in
TO the bin Of fare. and no greater guam
tity given ut each time than will be
directly consumed. are in my belief
among the first principles of successful
feeding. To supply more than will be
eaten at once is not only wasteful, but
it encourages the animal to become
dainty of its food, which bad habit in
the end prevents it eating proper
quantity.
This is in direct antagonism to the
American plan of feeding three times 4
day. Neither does it conform to the
well-knOwn physiological conditions
of the bovine race. The horse has
small stomach. He digests continually
| and must take food often. Horned
cattle. on the contrary. have large
stomachs. The paunch is quickly filled.
The animal must have time to rumin--
ate and prepare the food for the true
digestive stomach. On grassthe paunch
is not filled oftner than three times 4
day, and twice seems to satisfy them
quite as well when not at labor. While
is true that animals may be crowded
four or even five times day with pre-
pared food in finishing off fat. this rule
certainly will not work in the ordinary
feeding of cattle. The stomach should
be filled not more than thee times a
day in order TO give the animals proper
time to rulninate. And the rule works
most kindly in the West. even in STALL
feeding cattle.
CLEANLINESS IN CREAMERIEs.
Mr.. Edmund Hersey, in commune
cation to an Eastern journal in relation
to creameries, has practical things to
say that will apply generally not only
to creameries, but to any dairy, how
ever small. The gist Of his obscrva-
tons is below:
In running large creamery the SUI
perintendent will make it his business to
SEE that everything is kept sweet and
| clean. and he will also see that the
whole process of manufacturing butter
is uniform one day with another; and
above all he will see that the butter
which is sent out for sale is of "A quality
that will be credit to him and will
command good price. When super
intendent will not or cannot do this he
will be very likely to get his discharge
and better man in his place. But
there il another advantage Of co-opera-
tive creameries which is SO important
that it should be recognized by every
| friend to farmers wives. The butter
being made in them for !, whole village
the women Of such village are relieved
Of work which has always been be-
yond their strength andwhich shouldnev-
er have been given them to do. for many
a young wife has been hurried into an
early grave by having. in addition to
her other duties. to not only churn the
butter. but work it over. which requir.
ed more strength than an ordinary over
worked woman possesses. trust the
time is coming when no intelligent,
kind-hearted man will think of requir-
ing his wife to make the butter any
more than he will require her 10 go in
to the woods a cold winters day to cut
timber. Let us rejoice at the introduce
ton of every new movement which will
tighten the burdens Of a farmers wife.
| DESTRUCTION or SHEEP.
The London Live Stock journal Of a
late date gives an account from Buenos
Ayres of most lamentable destruc-
ton Of sheep. II is to the effect that
2O,OOO,OOO sheep and lambs have been
destroyed by foods and the epidenics
which followed, the greater mortality
being from the epidcmics. The follow
ing extracts will show the widespread
extent of the calamity:
4 An estanciero of twenty-five years
experience, born and bred in the
country. the owner Of two estancias,
estimated the loss of big sheep from
1000, 900 to 10000, 600, and said the
increase would be nil, which thus
brings up the loss to over 10000. 600; =
value little short Of f3, OOO, 900 sterling
Farmers who have lost least have sent
in 1000 or 5000 sheepskins. This i,
irrespective Of floods, and is the result
of an epidemic, the nature or origin o.
which is unexplained. There ha.
not been such mortality among the flock'